Brownback holds hearing on Roe v. Wade decision

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - The women behind the Supreme Court cases that led to legalized abortion told a Senate panel Thursday they never intended to help the abortion rights movement and claimed they were duped by lawyers representing them more than three decades ago.

The anti-abortion views of Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano, the anonymous plaintiffs in Roe v. Wade and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, are well-known, but it is the first time both have testified together in Congress.

Both women have tried unsuccessfully to overturn the cases that have spawned years of bitter debate over the question of abortion. They were called, along with legal and medical experts, to testify on the consequences of the 1973 decisions that found a Constitutional right to abortion.

The hearing before a packed Senate conference room was convened by Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, an ardent abortion opponent who is eyeing a run for president. He called it "the first in a series to highlight the effect certain Supreme Court decisions have had on American life."

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11969357.htm

[AX10]

1. Just overturn it NOW! The GOP has used this long enough...

to rally their pitiful minions against the Democrats. If this is overturned, their will be a ground swell of revolt againt the GOP at the voting booth.

[mongo]

3. Your're kidding right?

Do you really think that if the dems cave on abortion there will be anyone left to support the party?

This is a line in the sand issue that won't be crossed.

[JerseygirlCT]

8. Yup.

[donco6]

9. I don't know, Mongo.

It just seems inevitable. Maybe we should just let them have it. Sometimes I think that's what it's going to take to get people to wake up.

Of course, it'll also lead some young women to their untimely death in a back-alley abortion . . .

Hell, I'm male, maybe I should just shut the hell up.

[mongo]

10. inevitable?

Hardly. There are far more in this country that support safe, legal abortion over prohibition.

If I'm ever in a pinch, remind me not to let you watch my back...

[slackmaster]

2. I'm SO glad I got out of Kansas when I did

Brownback is a shit stain on the Senate.

[Gman]

4. So it likes like Brownback had his own play-pretend hearing

they should have run him off.

[Lindacooks]

5. Talk about something that's OLD NEWS!!!

Jesus, will you Repukes just GET OVER IT???

:sarcasm:

[FredScuttle]

6. "the effect certain Supreme Court decisions have had on American life."

The next fucking episode of this circle jerk better be Bush v. Gore. And a burning pile of dogshit to symbolize the effect it had.

[Jade Fox]

7. Let's see, these two had abortions, but they want to stop others....

from being able to do the same.

Sickening.